

Namely, WhatsApp Desktop seems to throttle my dGPU (GV-N1060IXOC-6GD). Hello Community, I noticed something strange earlier. Dirk first made the observation about a month ago and put the case up for discussion on German site Dr. So far, the reader has not noticed this behavior with any other app (e.g. This can be repeated/reproduced, according to him – I cannot test anything due to the lack of WhatsApp. 1531 MHz is the default clock that GPU-Z shows me.ĭirk writes that the frequency immediately jumps back from 1531 MHz to ~1950 MHz as soon as he closes the WhatsApp desktop app. GPU-Z shows PerfCap Reason = Idle, so there is actually no reason for throttling. I run scientific calculations from time to time, and both Boinc / World Community Grid and always cause my graphics card to throttle from ~1950 MHz to 1531 MHz after a few seconds after starting the WhatsApp Desktop App. Today I noticed again that the WhatsApp desktop app throttles the performance (frequency) of my Nvidia GTX 1060 (GV-N1060IXOC-6GD) graphics card. On the other hand, be aware that you always need your phone to log into WhatsApp on the computer - there's no way to use WhatsApp Web without your mobile app.It was a short email from blog reader Dirk F. And you can easily log into more than one WhatsApp account at the same time just by opening them in different WhatsApp Web browser windows. It's often easier to type using a real mouse and keyboard, for example, and you can keep WhatsApp on the screen, side by side with other windows to copy and paste information into chat messages. There are some significant advantages to using WhatsApp Web or the desktop app.


WhatsApp offers other features on the computer as well: WhatsApp web replicates the chat conversations from your mobile app.
